Boxes celebrate 60th anniversary

The Rev. Howard Box and Jean Newton Box are celebrating 60 years of marriage with a gathering of their children and grandchildren at their Oak Ridge home.

The Rev. Howard Box and Jean Newton Box are celebrating 60 years of marriage with a gathering of their children and grandchildren at their Oak Ridge home.

The couple was married Aug. 2, 1952, at the Unitarian Society in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Box was minister of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church from 1976 until his retirement in 1991. Mrs. Box is a flutist and is active in many music organizations. They have lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Ottawa, Canada, where Mr. Box served congregations.

Their children are Ruth Westfall, a telephone repair person in Champaign-Urbana, Ill, including climbing the pole; Gordon Box, an ecological geologist for the state of North Carolina in Raleigh; and Carol Box of Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband is an economist in the headquarters of the United Nations. Grandchildren are Robert Westfall, and Sofia and Matteo Nicita.